Prospect Research MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation focused on prospect research tools, deployed on Smithery Web infrastructure.

Features

• Semantic Search: Contextual search that understands meaning and intent behind queries

• Webpage Scraping: Extract and process content from multiple web pages

• Batch Search Processing: Execute multiple search queries in parallel

• Comprehensive Coverage: Combine different search approaches for thorough research

Related MCP server: RivalSearchMCP

Tools

• web-search

  • A semantic search engine (Tavily) that understands the contextual meaning and intent behind queries

  • Inputs:

    • query (string): The search query to look up

• scrape-webpages

  • Scrape the provided web pages for detailed information

  • Inputs:

    • links (array): A list of URLs to scrape (optimally less than 10)

  • Processes content to remove images and returns combined content from provided URLs

• batch-web-search

  • Traditional keyword-based search (Google via Search1API) that processes multiple queries simultaneously

  • Inputs:

    • queries (array): List of search queries to process in parallel (optimally less than 30)

  • Executes multiple distinct search queries in parallel

Prompts

• simple-assist - A basic prompt for general queries

• research - A prompt for detailed research questions

• review-code - A prompt for code review

Configuration

Required API Keys

This server requires the following API keys:

• TAVILY_API_KEY - For semantic web search functionality

• JINA_API_KEY - For webpage scraping

• SEARCH1API_KEY - For batch web search

These are configured in the Smithery Web environment for the deployed version.

Usage with Claude Desktop

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "prospect-research": {
      "transport": "sse",
      "url": "https://smithery.ai/server/@jzhang17/prospect-research-mcp",
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "YOUR_TAVILY_API_KEY",
        "JINA_API_KEY": "YOUR_JINA_API_KEY",
        "SEARCH1API_KEY": "YOUR_SEARCH1API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

For Other MCP Clients

Configure your client to connect to the server using the SSE transport type and the Smithery-hosted URL.

Structure

• /src/index.ts - Main server entrypoint

• /src/tools/ - MCP tool implementations (web search, webpage scraping, batch search)

• /src/prompts/ - MCP prompt implementations

• /src/types/ - TypeScript type definitions

Deployment

This server is deployed to Smithery Web platform. To access the deployed server:

1. Visit Smithery.ai

2. The server is available at the URL provided by Smithery Web

References

• Model Context Protocol

• MCP TypeScript SDK

• Smithery AI Platform

• MCP Client List